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] | g . i ““maximum price at $75,000. THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. MORNING. PUBLISHED EVERY TIRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year Daily and Sunday, X Montha... .. reo MORUNS s Honday Dee, One Yenr Baturdny, Do, One. Yo Weekly Dee, One Yen [ uilding mor N Twenty-fourth Sts. irl ‘piree . 317 Chamber Tsoms 13, 11 & Vi 1 streot CORMESPONDENCE, : unications relating to news and edi- Tttor whould e addrers the 15Htor —— 8800 L0 00 19 | o | Omaha, The Dee Houth Omahia, corn; Councll Blufr Chi Ot New York. Washingto: All o torfal matter s i) nd remittances should bo Publishing company 1 postofics orders 16 v of the SHING COMPA OF CIRCULATION. Goorwe 13, Tzschuek, wecratary of The I Iishing company, boing duly sworn, says that actul nuinber of full nplets copies of The Daily Mor und Sunday Bee printe during the 1 1594, Wi as follows 1 13 1 2 o Pub- t the Tvent April, Total ) Less deductions for ROVINGRY: (o070 ves Daily altion. ..o B ribed in my pres Public. New editions of geographics and atlases will now have to be revised so as to make Manchester appear as a ceaport. Those roses consecrated to Bland's pres- fdential boom are aiready fading and wither- ing. A boom supported by roses will not be ajoy forever, Congressmen may yet escape paying for the time that they are ab:ent from the daily sessions of congress for the purpose of patch- ing their political fences Secret sessions of any representative pub- Tle body are generally repugnant to the spirit of republican government. They are only to be tolerated when absolutely required by the exigencies of the occasion. If the Board of Health would attend more to business and less to tho ventilation of personal. grievances of its members it would succeed better in impressing the people with a sense of its Importance as a part of the elty government. Just now the Pennsylvania railroads are a little short on coal and long on water. They can operate their roads with a great deal more facility when the water s con- fined to the stock instead of being spread out over the roadbed. — It transpires that the proposition to buy the vote of Rev. Mr. Kyle in the senate made the minimum price $14,000 and the It is this that makes the story appear all the more absurd. The would-be bribe givers should have begun with a cheaper man, Hascall's acting city electriclan is re- ported back from Chicago, where he, in three days, has learned everything requisite for an expert electrical engineer. It is said that he intends soon to open a new electrical school in Omaha which will guarantee to manufacture electricians while you wait. Two men in a Nebraska town have been convicted and fined for playing cribbage for their own amusement because of an ordi- nance prohibiting the playing of any game of chance. We shall soon expect to hear of some one being fined for taking the chance of beating himself at a game of solitaire. , Congressman Breckinridge refuses to ab- dicate in favor of his son before he has trled for just one more term in congress. Breckinridge perhaps views his seat in con- gress as a plece of personal property, but he may delay making his political will until it 18 no longer in his power to be d'sposed of. Strangely enough, the rallroads do not seem to think It necessary to go through the customary farcical proceedings of en- Joining the members of the State Board of Transportation from enforcing the transfer switch law. The members of the board are only too willing to connive at the evasion of the law. The Burlington system of rallroads re- cently declared the usual quarterly divi- dend of 1% per cent. The dividend might bo increased by sevoral quarters of 1 per cent If the B. & M. officials would cut off the supply of passes distributed among the men who are already In the fleld for the fall campaign. South Omaha people complain that they have no park within thelr city to which they can have convenlent resort for recreation. In the interval they have been enjoying the privileges of Omaha's park system. Had they consented to annexation at the time the question was proposed they would long ere this have had that park system extended to their very doors, Justice on the top of the court house dome fs presumed to be color blind. But justice 8 administered under the dome appears to be run on the color line. When Mr. White was sentenced for keeping a gambling house he was fined $400 and costs. If his name had only been Black or Brown he would doubt- less have saved $200. There Is something in a name after all. A Chicago grand jury is going to punish somebody for glving away sccrets of the jury room to the newspaper reporters. The | grand jurors might secure a few valuabla pointers from members of the United States senate who have vainly endeavored to probe tho methods of reporters who are ‘“dis courteous” enough to print the secrets of the executive sessions. The warrant sharks at the state capital are tll active. They have Instituted another est case” to prevent the Stats Board of Bducational Lands and Funds from calling in state warrants. The district courts have been Appealed to and a temporary order re- | has stralning the state treasurer from calling in the warrants has been lssued. As a matter of course, the warrant brokers do not expect to relmburse the state for any loss it may sustain by reason of the injunction proceed ings. If the matter Is held up in the courts the state will lose something like §100 per day, THE OMAHA REASONS FOR RETIREMENT. The mumber of Annouhcements recently made by differont members of congress of their intention to retire from thefr present positions at the oxpiration of this congress oceastone the real réasons that have to such astion. In most cases they have either written letters of declination (o the ehairmen of the congressional committee in their districts or have Issued manifestoes to tholr constitucnts at home, in which they profuss to state why they have come to the neluslon not to be candidates for re-elec- tlon. Some of these explanations, of course, have to be discounted before aceeptance. Others present the chief cause of their dis- only when there are many causes combining. On the whole, however, taken altogether, they us to get a general idea of thelr reasons for retirement. One or two of the disappearing congress- they cannot longer in congress on the paltry per year. Their outside thelr attention and to unremunerative fleld of public lite means a pecunlary sacrifice which they are unwilling to make. Tt must be remembercd that several senators and mem- finpelled them to satisfaction onable men boldly asscrt that afford to remain salary of $5,000 business requires neglect it for the bers of the house have within the past few | years either resigned or retired because they wished to retrleve their personal for- tunes, which had been partially wrecked by reason of thelr inability to give them con- stant attention. Another objectionable fea- (ure of congressional life which s driving one man into the seclusion of career Is the office brokerage makes a congressman’s lot not Several measures have been proposed to do away with this abuse whereby meinbers of congress might be assured the privilege of galling a reasonable amount of time their Gwn for legislative purposes, in- stead of being pulled from pillar to post, as now, by persistent office seckers in quest of federal patronage. The propect of the adoption of any one of these measures is 8o poor that no one is warranted in remaining in congress in the hope that their cnact- ment will remove the thorns from his bed of roses. Reasons equally powerful, although consplcuous, are the fear of defeat and the Qesire for promotion to some place of greater political preferment. Of course no congress- man will acknowledge that he Is refusing to make another race because the outlook 1s agalnst his success, but he none the less takes the political forecast into most serious consideration before coming to any conclu- sion on the subject whatever. To a member almost certain of defeat, if renominated, voluntary retirement with much casier grace than to one who has only to say the word to be assured of keeping his place. Giving up something quite out of reach in order to take chances upon mount- ing higher on the political ladder is an in- vitation which few of the ambitious mem- bers care to resist. Under such circum- stances they have everything to gain, al- most nothing to lose. The apparent self- sacrifico of retirement may even assist them in attaining their ultimate object. It is a game with odds in their favor and appears for this reason to be growing in popularity. — ECONOMY THAT MAY BE COSTLY. It was a mistake to place Mr. Holman at the head of the house committee on Indian affairs. That gentleman's hobby is economy and he carrles it to a most unreasonable extent. Judicious economy in public expend- itures is always to be desired and there is an especially urgent demand for it at this time, when the revenues of the govern- ment are running bchind. But Mr. Holman is never judicious. He never looks at an expenditure in a practical, business-like way. and no matter how careful department officials may be in making estimates, the Indiana congressman s certain to cut them down. His inordinate weakness Is for paring and he indulges it at every oppor- tunity without considering for a moment the possible consequences. Whether hls policy has ever really saved anything to the government is a question. Mr. Holman’s committee has charge of the Indian appropriation bill and it pro poses to reduce the appropriation for the next fiscal year about $1,200,000 below that for the current year, and to make It $320,000 more than a private annex that a happy one less comes “less than the estimates of the commissioner of Indian affairs, who, it is stated, reduced the estimates, under instructions from the secretary of the interior, to the lowest figure consistent with efficlency in the service, at least so far as the work among the Indians is concerned. In cutting down these estimates the committee takes most of the reduction from the appropriation for schools, and, according to the opinion of the officials of the Indian Rights association, in such a way as to do the greatest possible damage. The appropriation bill not only slashes salaries, which may be justifiable under existing conditions, but it also re- duces the number of supervisors, of whom there is none too many now. The idea of the committee would seeni to be that almost anybody will do for this service. The ap- propriation for transporting Indian children from the reservation to the schools is not more than half what it should be, if it is proposed to keep the schools full, which certainly ought to be done. The officials of the Indian Rights association say that the undoubted object of this cut Is to kill the eastern schools by Indirect methods, but a further result will be to reduca the number of children in school by the whole number now In these eastern schools at Hampton, Carlisle, Lincoln, etc., as there will be no money to bring them east. In order to save $5,000 it is proposed to abolish the board of Indian commissioners. The mem- bers of this board give their services, which have been of great value to the government, without charge, the government merely pay- ing their expenses, It this board is abolished it is probable that the government will lose many times the amount of its ex- penses annually from the want of that care- ful supervision of contracts, Inspection of goods and of the work of the varlous agencies which Is made by the commls- sioners. In short, the economy of tho Indian appropriation bill is aptly character- ized as of the “cheap Jack™ variety, while It 15 also objectionable in other respects. On golng into ofice Mr. Cleveland ex- pressed solicitude for the of the Indians. H» sald in his Inaugural address that every effort should to lead them through the paths of civilization and education to self-supporting and independent citizenship. The democrats of the hous: committee on Indian affairs, under the leadership of Mr. Holman, now propose, in order to effect a comparatively trifiing sav- ing, to make a retrcgrade movement in con- nection with the Indian service, when the wise and bumane policy would be to push forward, even If it were necessary to somes what Increase the appropriations. More- over it is highly probable that this economy will i the end found costly. Its tendency s to prolong the work to be ac- complished and to put it into the hands of inferlor men, whon (he true course 13 welfare be made be obviously to advanes the work as rapidly as practicable and to employ (n the service the most capable and trustworthy men to be | had. some little specuiation upon | MORE LIGHT WANTED. Under the resolution passed oy the city counell on May 8, new bids for clectric lighting were invited on the strength of a telegram from Chicago from the fixeolsior Blectrie Lighting company giving assur- ance that it would bid lower than $112 per year if the contract with Pardec & Co. was repudiated. As might have been foretold, this telegram was nothing inore ncr less than a part of the plot by which Wiley hus sought to keep his grip upon the mu- nicipal treasury. It is now definitely known that the Excelsior Electric Lighting ccm- pany is simply an annex of the Thomson- Houston company, and owned and con- trolled by the General Rlectrlc uvctopus which has swallowed nearly all the corpora- tions that are engaged in the business of supplylng eleotric lights. The Excelsior Electric company Is capitalized for §500,000. The annual report of the Genoeral Klectric octopus shows that it owns $387,000 in the stock of the Excelsior company, or mcre than three-fourths of that concern. Iras- much as the Thomson-Houston company is also a part of the General Eleftric octcpus, a blind man must see that any eo-called competing bid made by the Excelsior ccm- pany Is In reality only a decoy. In view of the fact that the new bids ask for b per cent less capacity of the light than is called for by the contract of Pardee & Co., it can very readily be seen that the Excelstor company could put in a bld for a little less than $112, forfeit its $500 check deposited as a guarantee of good faith, and lot the Thomson-Houston company concinue to furnish light at the old price, as by that operation they would make at least $6,000 per year more than the city would have to pay under the Pardee contract. 1t s likely that any company will come in and invest a large amount of capl- tal under the Hascall general ordinance. That ordinance does not in any way affect the price of electric lights. Manifestly the whole scheme was rigged up and Juggled through by the ingenious Mr. Wiley in the interest of the present monopoly. But there are none so blind as those who will not see. The Wiley contingent in the coun- cil will still persist in its nefarious work. How much longer are taxpayers and pri- vate consumers of electric light to be sub- jected to this outrageous disregard of their interests? Is It not about time that the council shall be made to do its duty by compelling Pardee & Co. to fulfill their con- tract or forfeit their $25,000 bond? an not EMPIRE STATE POLITICS. The political parties in New York are get- ting ready for what promises to be an ex- ceedingly vigorous and interesting campaign. That state elects a governor this year and there is a feciing that the result of the elec- tion will have a more or less decisive in- fluence in determining the next presidential clection. The republicans are hopeful of a signal victory and they have gool reason to be. Everything has been going their way. They won the legislature last fall, captured a New York City congressional district which had been democratic for fourteen years, and in the municipal elections of last spring made sweeping victories, carrying towns that had been democratic for years. In viw of this republican confidenca seems to be fully justified. Yet therc is one thing wanting to assure victory, and that is com- plete harmony within the party. There are two factions in New York City struggling for control of the party, and the conflict they are carrying on is not helping to strengthen or solidify the organization. On the con- trary It is to be apprehended that its effect is weakening and to some extent demoraliz- Ing, as these factional warfares generally are. But apart from this—and it will, per- haps, not continue beyond the convention— the republicans of the Bmpire state seem clearly to have the advantage of the situa- tion, with all the conditions favorable to their holding it if they will harmonize and avoid all causes of dissension within their ranks. One thing that will give peculiar interest to this year's election in New York is the fact that in the event of democratic success the man who Is elected governor wiil prob- ably be prominent among the presidential possibilities in 1896. At present the indi- catlons point to Willlam C. Whitney as the man whom the democrats are most likely to sclect as their candidate for governor, and he would undoubtedly be a strong one. Mr. Whitney has given offense to no faction of his party, he is an able politician, and he 1s very wealthy. It Is not improbable that in any event his name will be heard In the next national democratic convention, but if he should be clected governor of New York this would not only be assured, but his chances of securing the nomination for presi- dent would perhaps be better than those of Ny other man in his party. The demo- crats will be no better off in available men two years hence than they were in 1893, No member of the cabinet will have the least chance before the next national con- vention, should any one of them aspire to a nomination, and there is no democrat in cither branch of congress who can be re- garded as available. The leaders in those bodies are from the south and the time has not yet come for naming a southern man for president. Of the prominent democrats not in public life William C. Whitney would undoubtedly prove to be the most available as a presidential candidate. He may be re- garded already as among the possiblities. The New York republicans can select a candidate for governor from a list of at least a dozen able and popular men, any of whom ought to carry the state under prevailing conditions. One of these Is Mr. Joseph H. Choate, the eminent lawyer of New York City, who was made president of the con- stitutional convention, and it is highly prob- able that he will be the republican candi- date for governor if he desires it. A cam- palgn with Choate and Whitney as the leaders of thelr respective parties would be conducted upon a high plane. In any event great interest is certain to be felt in New York's election, for If the republicans win there nxt November the success of the party in the national election of 1896 would be almost a foregone conclusion. Democratic victory there this year, on the other hand, would not necessarily assure victory to that party in the presidential clection. It would merely to make the resuit in 1896 somewhat doubtful, serve In the legislative appropriation bill now before congress the civil service commission secures a concession for which it has long been working. It is simply the transfer to It of the employes of other departments which have heretofore been loaned to it to constitute its clerical force. It will be re- membered that the commission quite re- cently had a Lttle dispute over this subject with Secretary Morton, because the latter refused to Include in his estimate the sal- arles of the clerks who had been detalled for clvil service commission work. The pro- posed change witl o, the commission | mirch more 1ndepondgriihan (L 15 now, witen it has to beg for every cne of its employes from some head of the various departments. | The legislative appropriation bill limits the transfer to the number of elerks now in the commission and this is the mest unpalatable part so far as tho com- mission is e service, of it corned For the first time in ten years, we are told, Des Moines proggats the shocking spec- | tacle of twenty open (Ml shops deallng out | liquor over the bars, wih their doors wide open. It is an open rot, however, that during all these ten gl about 100 so-called | apothecary shops have been dealing out the vilest of rot-gut whiskey and bottled beer | over their counters to men, women and chil- dren under the pretext of selling medicine. The contrast between the saloon and the drug store in Des Moines I8, simply this The saloon fs under police supervision and subject to wevare penalties for selling lquor to minors and habitual drunkards, as well as damages to their families for Injuries sustained. They are compelled to close their doors before midnight and must not sell on Sunday under any circumstances, The drug stora saloon deals fn rum and Its compounds without police surveillanco and pays no license or fine. It gives no bond for good behavior, is responsible for no damages, and may run open twenty-four hours of every day, Including Sunday. In fact, the most profitable business of the Des Moines apothe- cary shop was between midnight and day- break and particularly on Sundays, when stomach-ache and bowel complaints are mak- ing their worst inroads and create an extra- ordinary demand for bottled bitters and malt extracts. The Colorado Eastern Midland railroad was sold yesterday to a New York bond con- cern for $75,000. The bond concern secured the road by foreclosure of a mortgage for $500,000. So the road, inciuding 3,360 acres of coal lands, really cost the company $575, 000. By the laws of iegitimate business the road should be managed upon a basis of what it cost and the rates should be fixed accordingly. But modern raflway methods will be introduced and the Colorado Eastern Midland will in all probability be “reorgan- ized.” It will be capitalized for a couple of million and bonded for a couple of mil- lion more. Then the patrons of the road will be expected to pay exorbitant freight rates in order than the company may pay dividends and interest upon the inflated capitalization. Railroads are operated that way in this country. In sentencing a negro to the penitentlary for ten years for shooting another man on Monday Judge Scott declared that if the prisoner had been a white man he would have been given the full penalty of the law, or twenty years in the penitentiary. This opens a new way to sccure favor in the ad- ministration of alleged justice. White men are to be punished hecause their skin hap- pens to be white and négroes are to be given light sentences mgrefy! because they hap- pen to have been’ borii with black skins. The penalty is madé b fit not”the crime, but the person. If gnything more were necessary to demonstrate the unfitness of Judge Scott to preside over the criminal bench of the district courts this ought to be conclusive. ) — The resolution before the police commis- sion Qirecting the “chief 6 police to report the names of keepars, of disorderly houses who hold a government license for selling liquor embodies the common error that the federal government lIssues licenses to sell liquor. There is no such a thing as a gov- ernment license for the liquor trafiic. The internal revenue laws require each dealer in liquor to pay a special tax, and upon payment of this tax the party receives a stamped receipt. Such a receipt is no more a liconse than a custom house receipt for the payment of duty on imported wines. The federal government has no power to license any traffic not strictly deflnable as interstate commerce. The London Times interprets the strong and continued current of gold flowing into the Bank of England, indicating that ihe world's supply of gold Is excessive, That may possibly be, but it will not suppress the complaint heard on so many sides that the supply of gold of particular individuals in that world is quite universally deficient. The Embodiment of Party Sentiment, Globe-Demecrat. Bland unquestionably represents the pre- vailing sentiment in the democratic party on the currency question. That is to say, a majority of ‘the members of that party are in favor of cheap money and an abun- dance of it. e Editorlal Courtesies in Oklahoma. Kansas City Times, The Oklahoma editors who fired elght shots at each other in the heat of a per- sonal debate are accused of bad marks manship. Impossible. e editors were merely seeing »se they could shoot without endangering life, It s preposter- ous to think that an edifor should seek to destroy the subject of two-thirds of his editorials. et Outlived Mis Popularity. Indianapolis Journat, Mr. Cleveland seems to have outlived his popularity even with his own party. At a democratic convention held on Friday ln the Third congressional district of Tennes- see, the Chattanooga district, resolutions indorsing the administration and the pres- ident were loudly hissed and laid on the table, and a bittér anti-Cleveland man was nominated for congress, ——r— An Overdose, St. Paul Globe, The present has been a season of extraor- dinary meteorological disturbances, Storm after storm have swept over the country, each seeming to be more severe and de structive than its predecessor. The loss of life and property due to cyclones, overflows and shipwrecks has ' been Immense, ana of the sufterers have lost the fruits ars_of labor, “The public 18 of tue opinion that It s about time for the calm to come. We haye had more than a fair share of elementary warfare, —e Disposing of the Tariff Question. New York Sun. There s only one ‘way of dlsposing of the tarifft question, and this is for the senate to drop the gubject forthwith and oceed with other ' possible legislation. The sooner the éthocratio majority in congress acknowlddges the futility of fes presont - tarlt cKE and devices, and squarely and hondribly desists from'them, the brighter will be “the prospects of the democratic party and bf the business of the union. The robbery ®f unadulterated Me- Kinleylsm |s vastly preferable to that rom bery aggravated by communism, BI LY'S CANAL GREENBACKS, Milwaukee Bvoning Wisconsin: Congross- man Bryan's Nicaragua canal greenback bill is an idea entirely iu harmony with that gentleman's financial notions. An issuo of greenbacks based upon eanal bonds would bs about as unbusinesslike a transaction as could be imagined in the furthering of the great enterprise, If there had been in sufficient number in the days of the build- ing of the Union Pacific railroad we might have had Union Pacific raflroad greenbacks in eirculation, and perhaps other shinplaster currency of the same sort. Loulsville Courler-Journal: Representative Bryan's plan to construct the Nicaragua canal by issuing $100,000,000 of greenbacks will, it is elaimed, meet the objection of those who oppose, as the unpardonable sin, the Issuance of bonds. But will these pro- greenback, anti-bond statesmen explain why, | it a greenback s such a good thing, a bond is such a bad thing? A greenback s a promise to pay, and =0 is a bond. On a greenback the government horrows servic or value, on a bond It borrows money In both the case of the greenback and of the bond the taxpayers foot the bill, for neither is worth anything unless redeemable, and neither {s redevma.le unless the tax- payers redeem it. Chicago Herald: Representative Bryan of Nebraska responds to this laudable and pol- itle proposal to keep crazy financial projects under the heel in @ style worthy of a_ wild- eyed populist. He responds by introducing a bill providing for the purchase of $70,000,- 000 ot Nicaragua canal stock by the United States with new greenbacks to be. printed and fssued for that purpose. It Is now in order for some alleged democrat to contribute his mite toward destroying the confidence of rational men in the democratic party by espousing Coxey's cause. Coxey's bill to is- sue $500,000,000 or more greenbacks to im- prove public highways Is strictly in llne with Bryan's bill. The principal difference is one of quantity of greenbacks—the extent of flat inflation. Mr. Bryan has had his gripsack packed for desertion to the populist camp these many months, He now seems to be far on his way, if not already within the populist lines. - PEOF LE AIND THINGS, The senate does not take much stock In Buttz. Sugar stock is more desirable. John Patton, jr., the new Michigan sen- ator, is a scholarly man, wealthy, affable and’ popular. A New Jersey town is advertised for sale by the sheriff. The locality is a summer resort for taxshirkers. The oldest mason resides in Chico valley, California. He is 105 years of age and learned the trade at 15, New York disposed of 3,600,000,000 glasses of beer last year. As a port for schooners New York is without a rival. A swarm of seventeen-year locusts camped in New Jersey will continue the work of devastation inaugurated by the legislature. The trial of Erastus Wiman on the charge of forgery, preferred by the Dun Mercantile agency, begins in New York next Monday. Bx-Secratary Tracey is said to have spent $30,000 a year to keep up the soclal require- ments of ‘an $5,000 job in President Harri- son's cabinet. 7 After exchanging several bloodless shots, two Oklahoma editors concluded that in the hands of men truly great the pen Is mightler than the gun. It is now charged that General Coxey took on a champaign jag in Philadelphia. Well, his system needs some insinuating fluid 'to drown his trials. Since Colonel Cockerill absorbed a few juicy joints of a Georgla barbecue, the New York Advertiser is gradually drifting to the belief that the war is over. Miss Lillfan Russell is only 33. With an average of one a year and the exercise of diligence it is possible for her to accumulate quite a colony of ex-husbands. The coal miners of Canada ought to con- tribute liberal sums to prolong the strike of their brethren in the states. The demand for Canadian coal for export is enormous. Colonel Joseph Moore, who died at In- dianapolis the other day, planned and con- structed all the pontoon bridges used by General Sherman in his march to the sea. Patrick Sulifvan of Sheboygan, Mich., who was Kknighted by the king of Sweden for his book on turnips as a universal article of food, has patented a bicycle made of corn- husk pulp. General Don Carlos Buell, at the age of 76, has gone Into a new enterprise on the Pacific coast, that of extracting gold from black sand along the seashore of Oregon and Washington Miss Adeline Knapp Is the sporting re- porter of the San Francisco Call. When on parade she sports a Turkish trousers, cutaway coat, a loud polka-dot vest and a Killing silk tile, Rev. W. T. D. Clem of the Methodist Episcopal church, who officiated at the fu- neral of Edgar Allen Poe, is living near Baltimore. He says that only one carriage followed the hearse {o the graveyard, and it contained himself and three others. One of the most remarkable men in gov- ernment_employ s Second Assistant Post- master General J. Lowrle Bell of Pennsyl- vania. He has a firmness that makes him a terror to those who seek concessions. Be- ing an appointee of the Harrison adminis- tration, democratic politicians have moved heaven and earth to compass his removal, but he is likely to remain as long as he chooses. TRIFL. AIR. Courjer: These pinching snuff-taker, Lowell are times, sald the Detroit Free Press: Bill—What did they throw the policeman down the well for? Jefi—I guess they wanted to put & copper bottom on it. Boston Gazette: The man who works his jaw never has time to labor at any useful ccupation. Minneapolis Tribune: ~ Uncle Sam 10 Carnegle—How's business? Carnegle—Oh, we're plugging along. Boston Journal: Ethel—-Why are you al- ways complaining because 1 have other admirers? orge—Oh, if you wish to make a syndicate of yourself, I suppose 1 mustn't growl. Good evening. Buffalo Courier: “Your time has come,’ grimly remarked the jeweler's errand boy, as he delivered a clock at a customer’s residence, Chicago Tribune: Banks—What makes you look so soul Rivers—Old fellow, I'm in a pickle, you spare me a little “'sugar? Can Tid-Bits: One of the ladies in fancy dress was, though fair enough, a trifle fat There spake to her a reporter: “May T ask what character you represent “Helen of Tro; she answered. “What did you think it was?' “Well," he mured, “I thought you® might be of Avolrdupols! Helen s a Indianapolis Journal: Minnie—Here liffer- conundrum for you: What s the ence between you and crushed sugar? Mamie—I didn't suppose there was any. Minnie—Oh, yes, there is. One is mashed to powder and the other is powdered to mash, Somervllle Journal; Never refuse a cigar when it is offered to you. Even if you do not smoke yourself, you undoubtedly have friends who - do. DISSATISFIED. Atlanta Constitutior I would I were an fcicle T would my melting soul Were going on a bicycle Pellmell toward the pole! T'd like to hear a blizzard whizs, And get a goodly slice; My sole desire this moment s To put myself on le Take no Substitute for Royal Baking Powder. It is Absolutely Pure. All others contain alum or ammonia, Bryans | mur- WAR ON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS Non-Seotarian Education for the Noble Red Man is Demanded. CAMPAIGN BEING WAGED AT THE CAPITOL Natlonal League for American Industeies Making Its Vo Henrd the Protoction of I the House -Opposing Indinn Appropriation Ltoms. WASHINGTON, May 22.—A campaign is being waged at the door of the house by a called the National League for the Protection of American Industries against those Items in the Indian appropriation bill providing for the support of parochial schools. The society Is largely an ccelosi- astical organization. Rev. Willlam . Pa sons fs its president; Hon, Willlam Strong, a retired justice of the supreme court, vieo president, and on the board of managers are Wheeler H. Peckham, who was nomi- nated by President Cleveland for the su- vreme court; Dorman B. Eaton and Henry B. Howland. The opponents of the appro- priations for schools under church mans ment claim that they have a large number of members of the house pledged to fight the grants when the bill is brought up. They represent that during the past eight years a total of § been given to_the Roman Catholl s, out of $3,- 707,951 appropriated, that the propor- tion given to the Catholic schools is steadily increasing since the Congregational, Metho- dist, Dresbyterian and Episcopal churches have withdrawn their applications for funds. The whole amount asked for this year fs said to be nearly $400,000, to be distributed among forty-five Roman Catholic schools. The particular items in the bill which co gressmen are asked to oppose are for tho following schools St. Boniface, Banning Famlly, Blackfoot, Mont Collegeville, Minn., 00 Sterns County, St.” Paul, Clontarf, $10,000; St. Ignatius, Jocko, Cal., $45,000; St. Josephs, Renssaelar, Ind., $8,330; Kato Drexel, Umatilla, Ore., $5,000. soctety Cal $12,500; Holy $12, 00; St. Johns, St. Benedicts, FREE COINA OR REVOLUTION, President Fiske Talks Strongly to the Bi- metallle League. WASHINGTON, May 22.—Presidont A, C. Fiske of Denver call the Pan-Amer Bi- metallic league to order in the Grand Army hall today when about fifty members were present. In his opening address Mr. Fiske sald the legislation of the last thirty years in this country had been in the interest of forelgn mations. He attributed the present situation in business to the demonetization of silver, and belleved a revolution would come 1f relief were not granted in the line of free coinage. At the conclusion of Mr. Fiske's speech, General Stephen M. Field of Virginia, pop- ulist candidate for vice president the last national convention, was chosen chairman of the convention, T. M. Tibbles of Nebraska was chosen sec- retary. The remainder of the session was devoted to speech making. Among those who talked were Representatives Hudson of Kan- sas and Pence and Bell of Colorado. At the afternoon session a petition signed by about 500 citizens of Denver asking that steps be taken to bring about the restoration of silver to its former position as a money metal was recelved and ordered transmitted to the house of representatives. The following committce on resolutions was appointed: Chairman, Colonel A. G. Fiske, Colorado; H. H. Hyatt, Nebraska; Captain C. H. Tompkins, Towa; J. H. Tur-- ner, Georgia; Horace Stites, Missouri; H. E. Taubeneck, [llinois; B. M. Burchard, Mary- land; H. R. Janney, West Virgina; A. L. Lot- tis, Pennsylvania; Colonel Robert Deverly, Virgina, and A. S. Diggs, Kansas. There are few delegates present and the con cannot be a success, only about fifty persons coming, instead of several hundred: Germans After Ameriean Trade. WASHINGTON, May 22.—The United States commercial agent in Hamburs, Ger- many, Louls Sterns, says in a report to the State department that since the World's fair the German merchants, encouraged by thelr government, are ng special ef- forts to extend their trade. To this end, through the German consuls In the United States, agencles have been established in all important centers where persons can obtain advice and information rezarding the cost, freight and tariff charges on Ger- mun products and thus importation at first Dand 'is made practicable and profitable. Mr. Stern believes that American manu- facturers could imitate this plan with ad- nt Fair HBullding Sold. WASHINGTON, May 22.—Secretary Car- lisle has accepted the offer of private par- tles at Chicago for the government World's fair building. An intimation has Dbeen made that ihe private parties who have bought the building will sell it to the At- lanta authorities for $25,000. The amount \lized by the government is not known. Canadians May he Fourtl WASHINGTON, May 22.—The State de- partment has granted permission to the militia o British Columbia to cro ention | the ' T BROWNING, KING The largest makors and sollors of tine clothes on earth, Your money’s worth or your money ba border with arms and equipments and pare ticipate In the Fourth of July eelebration in_ Eeattle, Wash.. The permission was granted at the request of the Washington state delegation. Several regiments of the militia are expected to cross over. BUTTZ WAS NOT TO N Tnvestigation Without the Chief Witness. WASHINGTON, May C. W. Butts, who Was very anxious to be present before the senate bribery Investigating committoe, was not on hand when the eommittee met today. Instead he sent his attorney to explain that he was otherwise engaged, and asked to be excused from attendance for the present, On being questioned by the committee as to Mr. Duttz's reason for his conduct, Attorney MeGowan said Nis cliont was engaged In carch for a witness who could cor- roborato his statements and throw lght on the question at lssue. The explanation was far from satisfactory, and Mr. McGowan was informed that Buttz was the man wanted, and not a substitute. Accordingly the committeo called the sergeant-at-arms 1o their assistance and directed that a qub- poena be issued for Duttz While waiting, the committee called in several senators, Including Messrs. Voor- hees, Harris and Coke, to whom Senators Hunton and Kyle had stated they had given Information of the approach:s made to them- selves soon after Buttz had first made his propositions to them. They confirmed the statements of Messrs, Hunton and Kyle. When asked if they knew of oth r attempts to bribe senators, Messrs. Voorhees, Harrls and Coke =aid they did not, ergeant-at-arms reported to the coms at 1 o'clcek he had failed to find Butts. He, however, had a-cortain:d Battz had left the city on an early morning train, with the purpose and expectation of returning by 2 o'elock, at which hour he had said he would again appear befor: the commitee. Major Buttz did not meet the expectations of the committee by putting in an appear- ance during the afternoon, and the opinfon was expressed that he would not be at the capitol before tomorrow morning. None of the members of the committee think thero i any probability of his having left the clty to evado the investigation. FOUND, Bribery oroed to Proceed making s ENTS T LIST OF PA AT HAVE EXPIRED, Two Hundred and Sixty-Elght Died Yes- terday, So of n Very Tmportant, WASHINGTON, May 22.-Patents of 208 patents expired today. Among them were the metrical telegraph system, Theo, M. Foote, Brooklyn; chemical telegraphs, Charles A Randall, Brooklyn; —electrlo light, N. P. Reynier, Parls, France; water wheel, W, T. Rease, Waupun, Wis.; float signal lights, Richard Pintacn, Berlin, Bl aper boxes, L. B, Plimpton, Hart- nn.; steam generator, J. Kirmenich Firmenich, Huffalo, N. Y.; mowers, m H. Whitely, Springfield, O.; cireutt for electric magnetic rallrona witch, H. N. Rowell, Concord, N. Fi; grain binders, Willlam R. Baker, Chicago, 115 breech Ioading fircarms, F. Engel, St. Pelersbure, Russia; fire escapes, D. B, Bw- ing, Indianapoli Ind.; tobacco cutters, John Farr, Montreal, Que.; metal alloy fok commerclal coin, W.'W. Fubbell, Philadel~ !l‘h‘.l' steam radiato R. L. Kernochan, Titusville, Pa.; mowers, Rudolph Dirks, Marlhorotgh township, Pennsylvania; re- volving fircarms, C. H. Richardson, Bhila. delphia; magazine firearms, breech loading frcarmn, Prank W. Tesing, New Huven, Conntire escapes,Bdward Row, Indianuy . Revolution In San Salvador. WASHINGTON, May 22.—The following telegram has been received at the Navy de partment from the commander of the U. teamship Bennington: ‘A LIBIRTAD, May 2 Libertad is under martial nists are massed al Santa Anna la A gunboat of Salvador Is in_ this port ready to receive the president. Thera are no Amerlcan citizens at this place.'” Wants Troops for the Navajoes. WASHINGTON, May 22.—The secretary of the interlor today forwarded to the War department a request that troops of New Mexico be directed to arrest Navajo In dians, who, a report to the department says, are off their reservation and commit- ting depredations. ‘The town of law. Revo- Boatner's Findings Upheld. WASHINGTON, May 22.—The committes on judiciary has endorsed the report of the Boatner subcommittee which investigated the matter of the injunction issued by Judge Jenkins against the Northern Pacific employes. Ordered an A WASHINGTON, May 22.—The house has adopted the resolution directing the naval committee to Investigate the allegations of fraud in connection with the armor plate con= tract. v Postmaster at Ellis. WASHINGTON, May 22.—(Speclal Tele- gram to The Bee)—H. C. Martindale has been appointed postmaster at Illis, Gage county, Neb., vice Frank Humes, removed. Contempt Prisoners Released. CHICAGO, May 2.—Election commis- sioners W. A. Hutchins, W. A. Keenan and Henry Schomer, who were fined $1,000 each for contempt of court by Judge Chetlain, vere discharged today by habeas corpus procecdings in an opinion’ rendered jointly by Judges Tuley, Adams and Sears. The i issioners were fined by Judge Chetlain s to produce cléction ballots be and jury, and today's decision s them from’all lability to"fine or ims prisonment. Ne o mehd T . w i W | W taste. people "Taint so. what you used to pay. S AR v»fa- l_ Novelties in Suits. Something different from what you get else- | where—exclusive styles. the kind of goods we are show- ing in suits for men and boys. They are cut in the latest style— right up-to-date with a varied assortment of colors and designs large enough It seems as though we have told this often enough to have everybody know it. people do, but there are some class clothing We only ask $2.50 for a Boy's handsome suit, and for $8.50 you get an up-to-date Man's suit, Higher priced ones are low priced, compared with BROWNING, KING & CO., . W. Cor. Fifteenth and Douglas Streets. That's | to satisfy every Most who think that our high- is high priced. — T Ve ey .

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